Saturday's State Sports Briefs: Jennings, Wilson out for next Packers' game

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GREEN BAY - Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy says he expects Greg Jennings and defensive end C.J. Wilson to be on the field next game. Green Bay will be playing at Seattle.

Jennings has missed time with a groin injury. With 10 days between games, the Packers won’t return to the practice field until next Monday. The coach says he was sending a message to his team when the normally conservative coach went for a fake field goal late in the first half. He says he wanted to let his offense know it needed to playing to the level the defense was showing. At his Friday post-game news conference, McCarthy told reporters he’s a conservative person, but you need to be aggressive when calling a game.

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Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers is okay too, after having a scare early in Thursday's 23-10 home win over Chicago. Team physician Pat McKenzie examined Rodgers’ right elbow after he got sacked by Bears’ defensive end Corey Wootton during the Packers’ second series. He stayed in the game at that point, and threw an incomplete pass to end the drive. Rodgers said he couldn’t feel his hand at the time, and he should have handed the ball off. But it did not bother him the rest of the game. Rodgers completed 22-of-32 passes for 219 yards, an interception, and a fourth quarter touchdown to Donald Driver as the Pack evened their record at 1-1. Their next game is a week from Monday night at Seattle.

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Thursday night’s Bears-Packers game was seen by an average of 8.6 million viewers, the highest overnight rating in seven years of “Thursday Night Football” on the NFL Network. Those audience numbers don’t include people watching over-the-air stations in the Chicago and Milwaukee markets. The game’s overnight rating was 6.3 in the U.S., topping the 6.0 rating of the 49ers-Ravens game last Thanksgiving.

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UW-Stevens Point will induct seven athletes and a long-time administrator in its Athletic Hall-of-Fame. Two-time women’s basketball All-American Amanda Nechuta Bailey was also a four-time All-American in the shot put – and she played a year of soccer as well. Also to be enshrined is Tara Schmitt Kielblock, who excelled in the same three sports as Bailey. Retired Pointers’ athletic director Frank O’Brien is also being honored, after he spent 30 years with the university – including 20 as the athletic director. Women’s soccer star Jennifer Bruce is also being inducted, along with Mick Kempffer in men’s hockey, Don Schwamberger in track and cross country, Bret Stamper in wrestling, and Bill Verbrick in baseball. The Hall-of-Fame’s 2012 inductees will be recognized at a banquet on October 20th.

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SCORES

COLLEGE SOCCER

--Men

Wisconsin 0, Western Illinois 0, tie

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COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL

--Georgia Southern Eagle Invitational Tournament

Wisconsin 3, Savannath State 0

Wisconsin 3, Georgia Southern 2

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WISCONSIN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Amherst 27, Manawa 6

Appleton North 21, Wausau West 0

Athens 49, Wisconsin Rapids Assumption 0

Bangor 46, Royall 22

Bay Port 55, Green Bay East 12

Belleville 18, Waterloo 14

Belmont 40, Cassville 6

Black Hawk 54, River Ridge 0

Blair-Taylor 50, Alma Center Lincoln 14

Boyceville 16, Elmwood/Plum City 0

Brodhead/Juda 54, Beloit Turner 6

Brookfield Central 24, Milwaukee Marquette 0

Brookfield East 42, Wauwatosa East 7

Burlington Catholic Central 40, Racine Lutheran 0

Cameron 44, Shell Lake 21

Chilton 32, Wrightstown 21

Clear Lake 37, Lake Holcombe 0

Coleman 68, Wausaukee 14

Cuba City 38, Riverdale 5

Darlington 41, Boscobel 0

Deerfield 45, Pardeeville 28

DeForest 49, Sauk Prairie 13

Detroit Catholic Central, Mich. 42, Goodman/Pembine/Niagara 0

Durand 56, Amery 6

East Troy 42, Jefferson 35

Edgar 53, Phillips 0

Elk Mound 28, Glenwood City 6

Ellsworth 27, Baldwin-Woodville 7

Fond du Lac St. Mary's Springs 64, North Fond du Lac 12

Fox Valley Lutheran 56, Ripon 19

Franklin 30, Racine William Horlick 19

Frederic 19, Webster 0

Gilman 52, Wausau Newman 14

Green Bay NEW Lutheran 60, Beaver Dam Wayland Academy 14

Green Bay Notre Dame 41, Sheboygan South 27

Green Bay Preble 26, Pulaski 19

Green Bay Southwest 58, Sheboygan North 0

Greenfield 48, Cudahy 0

Highland 34, Benton/Scales Mound Ill. 0

Hillsboro 42, Wonewoc-Center 0

Holmen 35, Sparta 0

Hopkins, Minn. 49, Milwaukee Hamilton 0

Hortonville 42, Denmark 0

Hudson 49, Eau Claire North 14

Johnson Creek 16, Hustisford 0

Kenosha Bradford 42, Kenosha Tremper 28

Kewaskum 27, Campbellsport 18

Kewaunee 47, Mishicot 21

Kimberly 35, Appleton East 16

La Crosse Central 36, Kingsford, Mich. 14

Laconia 27, Omro 14

Lake Mills 28, Poynette 13

Lakeside Lutheran 59, Columbus 6

Lancaster 49, Platteville 14

Lodi 40, Watertown Luther Prep 7

Madison Abundant Life 52, Watertown Maranatha Baptist 42

Maple Northwestern 40, Hayward 14

Markesan 42, Horicon 6

Marshall 21, New Glarus/Monticello 0

Marshfield 39, Neenah 14

Mayville 28, Lomira 14

Medford 31, Antigo 7

Menomonee Falls 28, West Allis Central 14

Mequon Homestead 58, Grafton 20

Milwaukee Bradley Tech 21, Milwaukee Pulaski/Arts/Reagan 15

Milwaukee Washington/Metro 30, Milwaukee Bay View 2

Monona Grove 28, Stoughton 14

Montello/Princeton/Green Lake 41, Dodgeland 0

Mount Horeb 54, Baraboo 6

Mukwonago 14, Waukesha Catholic Memorial 13

Muskego 41, Waukesha West 28

Necedah 37, Brookwood 6

Nekoosa 54, Mauston 14

New Berlin Eisenhower 21, New Berlin West 14

New Lisbon 14, Cashton 12

Northland Pines 45, Hurley 6

Oconomowoc 14, Beaver Dam 13

Osceola 14, Prescott 10

Oshkosh West 14, Wisconsin Rapids 13

Osseo-Fairchild 21, Neillsville 14

Plainfield Tri-County 40, Bowler/Gresham 0

Plymouth 49, Waupun 7

Prairie Farm 60, Siren 14

Random Lake 27, Sevastopol 0

Reedsburg 24, Monroe 8

Rio 45, Williams Bay 0

River Valley 52, Prairie du Chien 12

Rosholt 52, Port Edwards 7

Seymour 56, Shawano 14

Shiocton 36, Stevens Point Pacelli 0

South Milwaukee 28, Brown Deer 27

Southern Door 31, Valders 21

Spring Valley 13, Colfax 6

Stanley-Boyd 30, Fall Creek 0

Stevens Point 28, Fond du Lac 21

Sturgeon Bay 33, Oconto 7

Sussex Hamilton 51, West Allis Hale 17

Two Rivers 56, Kiel 20

Walworth Big Foot 42, Orfordville Parkview 6

Watertown 28, Slinger 0

Waunakee 41, Portage 0

Waupaca 42, Clintonville 8

Wautoma 61, Adams-Friendship 6

West Bend West 21, Hartford 7

West De Pere 43, Luxemburg-Casco 7

West Salem 21, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau 14

Westby 21, Onalaska Luther 13

Weyauwega-Fremont 29, Bonduel 28

Whitefish Bay 42, Milwaukee Lutheran 7

Whitnall 43, St. Francis 15

Wild Rose 32, Marinette St. Thomas Aquinas/Lena 6

Wisconsin Lutheran 52, West Bend East 7

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